Display stand



Patented ug. 12, i924.

il 'l'lE T rDISPLAY STAND.

` application mea october 2, 1923. 'serial No. ataca/4 To all whmztz'zmay concern:

Be it known that l, Bonsai" 713111, ya citizen of the United States,residing at San Fran cisco, in the county of San Francisco, State ofCalifornia, have invented a new and useful Display Stand, of which thefollowing is a specication in such full and clear terms as will enablethose skilled in the art to con struct and use the same.

This invention relates to a display stand and its object is to provide-adisplay stand capable of showing cards of various vsizes at varyingangles, as may be convenient in a. window or show case.

Another object of the invention is to enable the card holder to beraised or lowered to suit the convenience of other articles in thewindow.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide a display stand which iscapable of carrying a rack for the display of narrow strips of card,such as, for example are commonly used in restaurants or other placeswhere a strip of card abouttwo inches wide and eighteen or twenty incheslong is used to display the name and price of an article, several ofthem being used, one over the other.

Another object of the invention is to provide means whereby the cardholder will frictionally engage the card with suflicient force toprevent .it from being easily dis placed from the holder.

Other objects of the invention will appear as the description proceeds.l An embodiment of tlie invention is shown in the Vaccompanying drawingsin which the same reference numeral is applied to the same portionthroughout, but l am aware that there may be modifications thereof.

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the holder,

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the holder,

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the rack used with the holder to displaynarrow cards,

Fig. 4 is an edge view of the rack shown in Fig. 3, and

Fig. 5 is an end view on a larger scale of the card holding barsshowingthe means for retaining the card in place.

The numeral 1 indicates a suitable heavy hase which has a rod 2connected therewith, which rod has a circular head 3 at its upper end,said head forming an eye to receive thumb bolt 4. i

The thumb bolt passes through two clamps 5 and 6, and is threaded into anut 7 to ene.`

able the two clamps to be tightened on the head 3.

The clamps and 6 are shaped to embrace a flat tubular member 8, said.member having a har 9 at its lower end which consists of a piece ofsheet metal bent over to form a rounded edge at 10, as shown in Fig. 5,and the metal is also bent vup to form a channel to receive the loweredge of a card, as shown at 11.

The extreme edge of the plate is formed as shown at 12 to contact withthe back of the plate, .the object of ,this being to exert sulficientfrictional pressure upon the lower edge of the card to hold it so thatit will not be readily displaced from the holder.

Slidable wit-hin the member 8 is another flat tubular member 13 whichcarries at its top a holder 14 of substantially the same form as theholder 9 except that it is reversed in position so that it will engagethe upper edge of the card instead of the lower edge as does the bar 9.

rIhe tubular member 8 is open at the back so that when the clamps aretightened that the outer tubular member will engage the inner tubularmember with sufficient force to hold it in a given adjustment.

It will also be seen that the clamps may be tilted to allow the holderto stand at any desired angle with respect to the standard 2, and thatthe head is sufficiently solid to properly hold the cards in the desiredposition.

The holder shown in Fig. 3, which is used with the stand, consists oftwo flat members 15 and 16, looped to form a series of hooks 17 and 18at different elevations along the length of the two bars 15 and 16.These two bars are then connected together by means of two transversemembers 19 and 20. In use this frame is inserted in the recessed bars 9and 14, the same as a card, whereupon narrow strips may then be insertedin the hooks formed in said plate, in such number as may be desirable.

That I claim is as follows, but modifications may be made in carryingout the invention shown in the drawings and in the .above particularlydescribed form thereof,

within the purview of the invention.

1. A display stand, comprising a base, a standard carried thereby havingan eye at its upper end, a pair of clamps, a bolt passing through saidclamps and Vthrough the eye of said standard, a tubular member passingthrough said clamps, and means at the top and bottom of said tubularmember vtto secure a card in position, the vbolt enabling said clamps tobe loosened to raise or lower the display and permitting the display tobe tilted at will.

2. In a display stand, a base, a standard carried thereby having an eyeat its upper end, a pair of clamps, a bolt passing therethrough andthrough the eye of the standard, a tubular member extending between theclamps, an adjustableV bar slidable in said tubular member and means atthe top of the adjustable bar and at the bottom of the tubular memberfor holding a card.

A 3. In a display stand, a base, a standard carried thereby having aneye at its upper end, a pair of clamps, a bolt passing therethrough andthrough the eye of the standard, a tubular member passing between theclamps, a plate secured to the lower end of the tubular member one edgeyof said plate being formed to produce a receptacle to hold andfriotionally engage the lower edge of a card and means slidable in thetubular memberdto engage and hold the upper edge of a oar 4. In adisplay stand, a base, a standard carried thereby having an eye at itsupper end, a pair of clamps, a bolt assing through said clamps andthrough tie eye of the standard for securing the Clamps in any desiredangular adjustment, a tubular member slidable in said clamps having aplate at its lower end formed to receive a card holding rack and a cardholding rack llaving a plurality of hooks formed along the samesupported by the stand and means at the upper end of the tubular memberto engage and hold said rack.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 16th day ofSeptember, A. D.

ROBERT WEIR.

